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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:02:29 -0400
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Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition
From: Erick Erickson <erickerickson@gmail.com>
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One thing to consider is that you have access to the source,
so worst-case you won't be cut off at the knees by the commercial
vendor.

Case in point: Fast was acquired by Microsoft, who have since
dropped all future Unix development. Hope all Fast users
really like running their apps on Windows servers.

Here's a start for companies using Lucene:
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/PoweredBy

<http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/PoweredBy>HTH
Erick

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:01 AM, jm <jmuguruza@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile some arguments in favour of lucene as
> management is deciding weather to standardize on lucene or a competing
> commercial product (we have a couple of produc, one using lucene,
> another using commercial product, imagine what am i using). I searched
> the lists but could not find any post, although I remember seeing such
> posts in the past.
>
> Does somebody kept such posts linked or something? Or does someone
> know of some page that would help me?
>
> I would like to show:
> - traction of lucene, really improving a lot last couple of years
> - rich ecosystem (solr...)
> - references of other companies choosing lucene/solr over commercial
> (be it Fast or whatever)
>
> thanks
>
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